Inword - get to the heart of the matter, BelfortStr. 3, Munich (2024)

03/07/2021

15/06/2021

Finally found the time to add two new texts to my website: "Smell checks could help to monitor the pandemic" & "How to retrain your sense of smell".

http://inword.de/category/text/

11/03/2021

What we eat may be more important than how much we move when it comes to fighting obesity.

28/02/2021

Wie funktionieren audiovisuelle Formate wie Youtube-Videos bei der Wissensvermittlung? Ein Forschungsteam der Universität Trier hat herausgefunden, dass die beliebteren Formate nicht unbedingt die sind, die den größten Lerneffekt erzielen. Direkte Ansprache und Unterhaltsamkeit können helfen, da...

08/02/2021

01/02/2021

Neue Erkenntnisse könnten die Therapie der Magersucht verbessern

30/01/2021

11/01/2021

Interesting stuff (olfaction & hunter-gatherers): https://soundcloud.com/humanbiologyassociation/sos-109-dr-kara-hoover-blows-our-noses-and-our-minds

Dr. Kara Hoover from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks chats with Chris and Cara about her research on the human sense of smell. She tells us about the development o

17/10/2020

When Your Child Is a Psychopath

So good, I read it more than once.

15/10/2020

Consciousness isn't just the brain: The body shapes your sense of self

02/10/2020

The Race to Redesign Sugar

This is great science journalism.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/28/the-race-to-redesign-sugar

Forget artificial sweeteners. Researchers are now developing new forms of real sugar, to deliver sweetness with fewer calories. But tricking our biology is no easy feat.

07/09/2020

Fitness und Training: Wer Sport treibt wird nicht immer fitter

I love to exercise but often I get frustrated because I don´t seem to get fitter. The good thing is: as a science journalist I can turn my frustration into a question and then into an article. I had a lot of fun discovering this new field of training science and talking to experts such as Claude Bouchard, Cora Weigert, and Anne Hecksteden.

My takehome message after reading the latest publications in this field: 1. Don´t fool yourself, if you are not getting fitter you are probably not working out regularly enough. 2. Well, it is in your genes (at least 50%). 3. For me, the most exciting finding: train smarter, combine endurance and resistance training and be assured, that even if you don´t seem to get fitter, something in your body and mind is changing for the better.

Here my article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German):

https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/wer-sport-treibt-wird-nicht-zwangslaeufig-fitter-ld.1565095

Bei jeder fünften Person, die trainiert, verbessert sich die Fitness nicht. Forschende untersuchen, was dahintersteckt und wie individuelles Training auch bei diesen Menschen zum Erfolg führt.

06/09/2020

Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t drink milk

Ability to digest dairy as an adult evolved later—and much more quickly—than scientists thought

15/05/2020

Merely Possessing a Placebo Analgesic Improves Analgesia Similar to Using the Placebo Analgesic

AbstractBackground. Placebo analgesia studies generally reported that the actual use of a placebo analgesic reduces pain. Yeung VW, Geers A, Kam SM. Merely pos

02/05/2020

In quest for vaccine, US makes 'big bet' on company with unproven technology

Unproven vaccine company, "Moderna," takes the lead in the quest to create a novel coronavirus vaccine. Moderna CEO says the company will have a vaccine go into testing in a few months.

28/03/2020

Women trailblazers who inspire us right now

As Women's History Month comes to a close, says Marianne Schnall, many of us are afraid, angry and anxious about what's next -- and there's arguably never been a more significant time to consider how women's history informs the present. Trailblazing women leaders share with Schnall who the women are...

12/03/2020

TED-Ed

Have you ever noticed something floating across your field of vision?

09/03/2020

Bacteria found leaking from gut to body in people who are obese

09/03/2020

A gut sensor for sugar preference

Animals innately prefer caloric sugars over non-caloric sweeteners. Such preference depends on the sugar entering the intestine. Although the brain is aware of the stimulus within seconds, how the gut discerns the caloric sugar to guide choice is unknown. Recently, we discovered an intestinal transd...

07/03/2020

How Brain Scientists Forgot That Brains Have Owners - The Atlantic - Pocket

Five neuroscientists argue that fancy new technologies have led the field astray.

07/03/2020

Zoologische Kuriosität: Erstes Tier ohne Atmung und Mitochondrien

Bizarrer Fischparasit kommt ohne Sauerstoff klar

21/02/2020

Kreuzmodale Wahrnehmung: Hummeln vernetzen ihre Sinneserfahrung

Das sinnliche Weltbild der Hummeln ist überraschend komplex

20/02/2020

Researchers find a western-style diet can impair brain function

After seven days on a high fat, high added sugar diet, volunteers scored worse on memory tests

24/01/2020

Dollars for Profs - Help Us Report On Conflicts of Interest at Universities | ProPublica

For the first time ever, you can see conflict of interest and financial disclosure records for employees of universities across the country.

18/01/2020

Actor Alan Alda and Scripps Research will transform scientists into master storytellers

Scripps is becoming the West Coast home of Alda Communication Training, which teaches scientists to be better listeners, observers and speakers, and to empathize with their audiences.

14/01/2020

Every-other-day feeding exacerbates inflammation and neuronal deficits in 5XFAD mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. - PubMed - NCBI

Intermittent fasting is the latest hype. A new study in mice finds negative effects. Just saying ...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31931140

Neurobiol Dis. 2020 Jan 10:104745. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2020.104745. [Epub ahead of print]

13/01/2020

A Quiet Revolution in Botany: Plants Form Memories - Atlas Obscura - Pocket

Inside a quiet revolution in the study of the world’s other great kingdom.

11/01/2020

Laziness Does Not Exist

Psychological research is clear: when people procrastinate, there's usually a good reason

22/12/2019

Every Single Cognitive Bias in One Infographic

If you think your arguments are rational and unbiased think twice ... Great summary of our biases

Here's all 188 cognitive biases in existence, grouped by how they impact our thoughts and actions. We also give some specific cognitive bias examples.

16/12/2019

Astaxanthin: A Potential Mitochondrial-Targeted Antioxidant Treatment in Diseases and with Aging

I'm sick and therefore in a foul mood. My boyfriend is gone, which means I have nobody to quarrel with. This is where Facebook comes in. I use my snutbrain to post nasty comments under ads. For example, one of those ads that promotes (good against cancer, , diabetes, ...). I was ready to forward it to the European Office for Nutrition Control. But before that, I did a little literature check on Pubmed. And the newest paper made me believe that I should buy this stuff as pronto as possible. Mental note: I have to revisit when my mind is clear (never?).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6878783/

Oxidative stress is characterized by an imbalance between prooxidant and antioxidant species, leading to macromolecular damage and disruption of redox signaling and cellular control. It is a hallmark of various diseases including metabolic syndrome, chronic ...

11/12/2019

Changing brains: why neuroscience is ending the Prozac era

Kommt oft vor. Nach ein paar Jahren greife ich ein Thema wieder auf, das vor ein paar Jahren gehypt wurde. Die neue Methode hat versprochen, was gegen Alzheimer, Depression oder Schizophrenie zu tun. Sechs Jahre später wurde keines der Versprechen eingelöst. Warum sind die Forscher nicht ehrlich (und die Journalisten sorgfältig) und sagen: Geile Methode, in ein paar Jahrzehnten könnt da mal was als Therapie für die großen Geißeln der Menschheit rausspringen. Vermutlich aber nicht. Zum Beispiel hier, 2013 wurde vorausgesagt, dass die Optogenetik Depression bekämpfen könnte.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/22/brains-neuroscience-prozac-psychiatric-drugs

The big money has moved from developing psychiatric drugs to manipulating our brain networks, writes Vaughan Bell

07/11/2019

Stanford professor who changed America with just one study was also a liar

https://nypost.com/2019/11/02/stanford-professor-who-changed-america-with-just-one-study-was-also-a-liar/amp/?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR1FUooWUhmd7hWkFvPrchKGZ0EINFwaj4YJVRZG4ShWtBLee9VM4C2Tvuk

Stanford psychology and law professor David Rosenhan could transfix an audience in a crowded lecture hall with just a few words. “What is abnormality?” he would ask undergraduate students, his deep…

07/11/2019

Sinnesanomalie: Manche Linkshänderinnen können auf unerklärliche Weise riechen

Die Welt der Sinne birgt ein neues Rätsel: Nicht jede Frau braucht einen Riechkolben, um normal riechen zu können

22/10/2019

How evolution builds genes from scratch

Scientists long assumed that new genes appear when evolution tinkers with old ones. It turns out that natural selection is much more creative.

18/10/2019

Spektrum der Wissenschaft

Lange gingen Wissenschaftler davon aus, dass Schmerzempfindungen bei Männern und Frauen auf die gleiche Weise entstehen. Doch das ist ein Irrtum. Lesen Sie mehr: http://bit.ly/2qqF8sR